HolyHaddock

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by HolyHaddock 12y ago
All of the projects I've done over the last few years have been "agile" - the company I work for actually offers agile training. Officially, all projects are written using TDD, and all estimates for all tasks should include t
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by HolyHaddock 12y ago
Silently inferring List[Any] is like a null reference. The error that you get told about is in a different place to where the problem that you need to fix is. In this case, the static type system could have been more helpful. There have bee
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by HolyHaddock 12y ago
Output should be measured by saving costs or new revenue, not lines of code written.
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by HolyHaddock 12y ago
> this is on top of the other obvious benefits of ORMs, such as abstraction over my storage engine. I can write a single 'query' that be be executed against a variety of SQL servers, Salesforce, MonoDB, an in-memory cache, or w
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by HolyHaddock 12y ago
Seconded. I'm currently using it as a beginners Javascript book and find it extremely accessible.
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by HolyHaddock 12y ago
Purpose and status aren't linked. There are programmers who without direct day-to-day management produce code that is valuable to the business, and programmers who receive comprehensive managerial attention and produce code that costs
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by HolyHaddock 14y ago
> Another example is TDD. People espouse the benefits, then some study comes along ( http://www.neverworkintheory.org/?p=139 ) saying the benefits are largely illusory and that code reviews are more effective. The study is much more tho
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by HolyHaddock 14y ago
> I'm less inclined to believe it than I was beforehand. I'm not arguing with anything you said, and agree the article provided weak (if not no) evidence for the idea that increasing money has marginal utility for happiness. What eviden
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by HolyHaddock 14y ago
> Are they not entitled to earn anything? Should all researchers be starving artists in garrets? Do you mean the creators of SfY, who seem to claim to have done at least some of the research that went into it themselves, or do you disco
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by HolyHaddock 14y ago
This does not work in the current market for the kind of role we're discussing. The hiring manager is looking for criteria to turn the big pile of CVs into a small pile of interviews. Being overqualified, or unexplained gaps fit the bill pe
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by HolyHaddock 14y ago
> Well, you really need to tailor your application to be suitable for the jobs. Be clear: You mean "you need to lie". When applying to a coffee shop, for example: The person with a 4 year degree will not get the job. They will leave as
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by HolyHaddock 15y ago
You seem to be stating that Christians (the anti-Dawkins) are objectively (ie measurably) less culturally and economically powerful than Feminists (the anti-Sqoot). I'm assuming, as Heroku and Sqoot are American, you mean it as a general st
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by HolyHaddock 15y ago
People like to talk about the tools and techniques they use regularly. Hackers and "people" might not be interested in hammers, but I can attest that if you get a group of blacksmiths together in a pub, they will spend entire evenings talki
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by HolyHaddock 15y ago
You're too kind, missing the drive to provide for the next generation is more than a minor nit. A tempting response is "So something like min(20years, authors remaining lifespan)" but that could leave early work (often less commercially suc
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by HolyHaddock 15y ago
"Less money into books -> less books" seems like "demand goes down -> supply goes down" and fits my unsophisticated understanding of economics. It's not necessarily clear that reduced copyright -> less money into books. Authors
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UK Prime Minister bows to pressure over English forest sale(guardian.co.uk)
2 points by HolyHaddock 16y ago|0 comments
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by HolyHaddock 16y ago
I had a similar problem at the end of the book, in that it's difficult to describe a world where poverty does not exist and where no one really suffers as a dystopia. ("a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, diseas